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| Authored by: Ian Al on Saturday, June 15 2013 @ 04:14 AM EDT |
It is only the creative expression fixed in the medium of the cards which does
anything.
Creative expression is abstract ideas and is judicially excluded from eligible
subject matter.
The card medium, without the fixed creative expression, is the inventive concept
in the known machine: the Jacquard loom. The known machine is not eligible for a
new patent. It is not a new and useful invention as a result of fixing abstract
ideas in the card medium.
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Regards
Ian Al
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| Authored by: jjs on Monday, June 17 2013 @ 05:25 PM EDT |
1. The cards are not part of the loom.
2. Previously, a loom was reset up to do the new pattern, and there was a lot
of manual work to actually do the pattern. The Jacquard Cards meant you didn't
have to have someone reset up the hooks to pull up the right warp thread for
each row. Instead, the cards controlled what got pulled up. However, it was
not a new loom for each pattern, it was just people doing work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom for a quick reference. Follow the
footnotes there for more info.
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(Note IANAL, I don't play one on TV, etc, consult a practicing attorney, etc,
etc)
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